Dershowitzophrenia

Sometimes I think Alan Dershowitz is so politically schizophrenic he deserves a diagnosis title of his own in the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM – Dershowitzophrenia.

Today the Harvard Law professor has an excellent article in NRO (one wonders if he offered it first to the NYT, WaPo, etc.) taking President Obama to task for his potential nomination of Chuck Hagel for SecDef. Given Hagel’s record on Iran (not even branding the Republican Guard as terrorists, etc.), Dershowitz correctly states the former senator’s appointment would send a message to the mullahs that the administration is not serious in their threat of using force to prevent the Iranians from developing nuclear weapons.

But, hello…. What kind of person would Obama nominate for SecDef and what does the president himself really think about Iran? The professor surely recalls Obama’s extraordinary indifference when the demonstrators in the streets of Tehran cried out for the president’s support.

It’s perfectly natural and predictable Obama would want a Hagel — or someone like him — at Defense. Where was Dershowitz? Ignoring what everyone else knew?

And it’s not just Defense. Who would Obama nominate for the even more important secretary of State? If he can’t get the prevaricating Susan Rice, a mindlessly progressive bloviating Assad apologist like John Kerry will be just the ticket.

No one but a certain Harvard professor and consistent public supporter of Barack Obama would be surprised.

BTW, the American Psychiatric Association has announced its Fifth Edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will appear next May. Dershowitizophrenia anyone?

And the oh so smart set can always be relied upon to prevaricate, but also to remain fixated to their ideology when it matters most NOT to!

Leftist profs, regardless of their religion are more wedded to their dogma than most. And this goes doubly for Jewish profs, G-d save us all from their delusions. And the most astute psychiatrist, re the Oslo Syndrome:Delusions of a People Under Siege, can’t cure many of them, despite his Harvard & Princeton pedigrees,even knowing full well what drives the left.

I understand that this is the internet. And that blogging is to some extent an art of immediacy. But still, “has announced it’s Fifth Edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual,” is an abomination the eyes of god. The apostrophe is not appropriate here. Stop. Just stop. You have beclowned yourself. You are a professional writer. I believe we should expect more of you.

We should feel deep deep pity for Alan Dershowitz because his soul must live for eternity with Claus Von Bulow, and what happen on Dec 21 1980 to wife Sunny then TRuth was made illegal in the form of the insulin needle with USA on the way to murder 30 million babies in Mother’s womb these words remain:”"Relativity became confused with relativism,” Paul Johnson writes. “It formed a knife… to help cut society adrift from its traditional moorings in the faith and morals of Judeo-Christian culture.”

Alan Dershowitz is perfect illustration of multiple personalities. In one hand he praises Obama for his Marxist world view which includes anti Israel/Jews demagoguery and votes for him. On the other hand he gets mad when Obama acts on what he truly believe. Go figure. Can a human being can brilliant and dumb at the same time? Yes it possible Dershowitz is the living prove.

Menachem – I was in NYC when Rabbi Kahane was murdered. At the time I was too busy working to be political, so I just briefly took note of it. Now I see it was a targeted assassination that ‘worked’, as no one has really been able to take his place.

It reminds me of another assassination on US soil — that of Col. Yosef Alon in Chevy Chase, MD (near Washington) in 1973. I heard an interview w/Fred Burton of Stratfor on the John Batchelor Show when his 2011 book, “Chasing Shadows”, came out. Neither he nor John said who the murderers were, but Burton seems to have unmasked them through international channels. The name ‘Black September’ came up.

As a tenured professor at the University of Atlantis, I have written a history quiz on the the life of President Obama. I’ll be happy to forward it to Professor Dershowitz. It has multiple choice and true and false question such as:
1. How many articles did law student Obama publish in the Harvard Law Review when he was the editor of that publication? and
2. How was scholar Obama’s tuition at Columbia and Harvard Universities?
Etc….
If Professor Dershowitz can pass the quiz, I’ll bestow upon him a PhD in History.
He will have earned it or he will have guessed phenomenally well.

As I hvae said many times before on this and other blogs: Derschowitz is all about progressivism firt; Israel second. He is DELIGHTED BO got re-elected and now thinks he (dersch) can use his influence to get BO to deend Israel. Memo to Dersch: you are not useful anymore.

If Iran (or other dictatorship) attacks the US with a nuke, it will likely be against a progressive coastal city (most are…look at a red vs blue map!). If that happens, there will immediately be many thousands fewer progressives and then general support for progressive politics will evaporate.

Simon is right about Dershowitz’s schizophrenia with respect to Obama but “Romney Goes to Israel and Dershowitz Flacks for Obama?” Romney goes to Israel and then Romney and his surrogate, Senator Jim Talent, fought conservative Christian delegates on our Republican national platform writing committee last August for a Muslim-enemy state in Israel. Romney sided with Israel’s enemies in the December 10, 2011 Iowa debate with Gingrich (remember Romney rebuked Gingrich for saying the Palestinians are terrorists and an invented people?) and then on our national platform. Come on Roger. Do your homework. Please.

Professor Dershowitz has always been intellectually honest and appears now to be taking the journey that David Horowitz once took. Professor Deshowitz is coming over to the light. Encourage it. The article about Hagel and the SecDef position was very good. Professor Dershowitz has penned some good articles published by David Horowitz in frontpage magazine.com.